Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux

Re:Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux by coldtea on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @07:01AM (#33893395)

Who said those people will be writing kernel code?

Rust for the Linux kernel is like 0.000001% of real life Rust use (which is not that big to begin with).

And it wouldn't be used the main kernel for the most part anyways, mostly (if not exclusively) kernel drivers.

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Re:Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux by rjsw on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @07:19AM (#33893482)

This thread is about a kernel DRM driver written in Rust, writing any DRM driver requires a lot of knowledge about how the rest of the DRM subsystem and the kernel works.

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Re:Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux by coldtea on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @08:11AM (#33893928)

The subthread though is about whether "any dev who can write Rust today is also a good C dev, ain't it?", not about kernel drivers...

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